The Drama of Living by David F. Ford

Author:David F. Ford [Ford, David F.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: REL012120, REL062000, Christian life, Christianity and culture, Christianity—21st century
ISBN: 9781441219664
Publisher: Baker Publishing Group
Published: 2014-09-15T00:00:00+00:00

Loving

Intimate, Dramatic, Ultimate

For most of us, love is what matters most. Love may shape our lives in the labors and joys of mothering or fathering, of being a husband, wife, partner, son, daughter, lover, friend, follower, collaborator, team player, party member, patriot, or worshiper. But we are also shaped through the failure or partial failure of love—love denied, betrayed, distorted, perverted, trivialized, disappointed, embittered, unfulfilled, lost. Perhaps here above all the corruption of the best is the worst. The family is where most violence in our world happens, and many of the other generators of conflict and enmity also have a strong element of love—but love that has gone wrong: love of kin, tribe, land and nation, money, language, truth, justice, freedom, or religion. We tend to be most vulnerable and most violent (whether physically or in other ways, and whether turned against others or ourselves) in relation to our loves. But all this is testimony, both positive and negative, to love mattering most.

The earlier chapters lead directly to this one: lives as dramas of loving; the love of wisdom and the wisdom of love; the face-to-face as the primary perspective of love; and the essential role in long-term love of repetition, habit, remembering, retelling, rehearsal, reconsidering, repentance, repair, and renewal.

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